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On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 02:18:36PM +0100, demerphq wrote:
> On 30 October 2012 12:34, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> > I'm not particularly keen on having hashes always randomised - it makes
> > debugging harder, and reproducing a reported issue nigh-on impossible;
>
> But this is the case now. You have no idea if the rehash logic has
> fired off when you debug, nor in which hashes.
>
> IMO, it will have the opposite effect, by making hash order dependency
> bugs much more obvious.
The rehash logic is intended to trigger very rarely. I was thinking of
debugging in terms of everything else *apart* from hashes; for example
it makes destruction order random between runs; so the first thing you
have to do (which I remember well from the 5.8.1 days) is do all debugging
with PERL_HASH_SEED set to zero; and when someone reports some weird
unpredictable destruction bug, it's hard to reproduce. This has to weighed
against, as you point out, the advantages it has of flushing out hash
order bugs.
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